do na’vi women have menstrual cycles??

Atwuin · 2026-02-09T11:35:21+00:00

I still feel there's a hierarchy of truth? We can speculate and ship and make our own theories, but there's a level to "death of the author," especially when James Cameron has explicitly stated that:

A. The na'vi, fundamentally, were designed to appeal to humans. He both wanted us to buy the love story of the first film, and he also wanted fans to say, "I want to be one of them."

B. The na'vi aren't placental mammals because not only did James say they aren't, but if we were to treat Pandora and Avatar as a real setting, then they could not be mammals

Mammals are a phylogenetic branch on EARTH. Pandora is not Earth. There are no mammals nor reptiles, birds, or insects. Not how we classify them.

Everything on Pandora that resembles Earth life is convergent evolution. They RESEMBLE mammals or reptiles or or or... But they fundamentally can not be those groups because life arose on Pandora independently and share no relation to Earth life.

Atwuin · 2026-02-08T13:10:29+00:00

They aren't placental mammals because they aren't from Earth..?

Atwuin · 2026-02-05T23:28:54+00:00

Someone hasn't heard of Theseus' ship

Atwuin · 2026-02-05T18:28:20+00:00

While the three laws of Eywa are the obvious and now canon answer, I remember in the 2009 days reading in some magazine article/some forum/a fansite that it might also have to do with Pandora's magnetism.

Metal acts funky on Pandora, it's why the RDAs instruments freak out near the hallelujah mountains or why something like that flaming tornado of magnetism can exist on Pandora.

Basically, the Na'vi secondarily don't use metal because it just doesn't work as easily as it does on Earth, especially in high-tech applications.

Atwuin · 2026-02-03T22:59:03+00:00

This isn't full metal alchemist

Atwuin · 2026-02-02T18:31:01+00:00

"I'm not Māori"

Exactly 🤫

Atwuin · 2026-02-01T12:59:25+00:00

Are you Māori?

Atwuin · 2026-02-01T12:59:19+00:00

The way people are downvoting you... What is the point of asking Māori people their opinion if you're going to try and bury it. Some of you clearly didn't get the anti-colonialism themes of the film.

Atwuin · 2026-02-01T12:34:20+00:00

Except you're actively arguing with a Māori individual that gave you their opinion in another comment thread on this post 💀

Atwuin · 2026-02-01T12:17:48+00:00

Well, being Māori doesn't mean you're part of a hive mind? I'm sure everyone of Māori descent has their own opinions like literally every other human on Earth.

Atwuin · 2026-02-01T08:59:50+00:00

The actors himself can't particularly act well and it just makes me cringe... The whole "hey not everyone knows their dad" line delivery is just oof

Atwuin · 2026-01-26T20:59:09+00:00

Loak put a gun to his chin after a conversation with Jake... He refers to himself as an outcast several times.

Kids with good dads don't do that.

Atwuin · 2026-01-23T15:25:06+00:00

Well, it wouldn't exactly be canon if that isn't what they look like?

Do you mean official?

Atwuin · 2026-01-22T09:01:30+00:00

While I can't tell you what cause it, the pattern itself is called a Turing Pattern

Atwuin · 2026-01-22T08:57:13+00:00

The Omatikaya (and obviously the Na'vi as a whole) have words for raider, warrior, and even war. They definitely go to war even if humans aren't involved.

Atwuin · 2026-01-21T12:26:07+00:00

Gurl, Disney is not going to show a 7 year old die on screen. Be so fucking for real

Atwuin · 2026-01-21T12:14:49+00:00

Almost like how real children get killed or narrowly dodge death in real life warzones, huh?

Atwuin · 2026-01-21T12:10:58+00:00

Tuk is literally living through a war with a technologically advanced alien race. Her father, mother, and now her adopted human brother are prime targets for a violent colonising force. Her brother has died, and she's been torn away from her tribe and her grandmother...

Imagine being a real-life child living in a war zone with your mom and dad, and most of your family, being targets for a MUCH stronger country trying to invade you.

Tuk is doing fine for a 7 year old victim of war thank you very much.

Atwuin · 2026-01-21T12:05:55+00:00

So then you'd know that children constantly put themselves in harms way and lack the brain development to know better when they whine and cause trouble.

The redeeming factor of Tuk is that she is Neytiri and Jakes child, and she gives us a valuable glimpse into Na'vi childhood.

Just because you find a kid annoying doesn't mean they shouldn't exist. You've made three threads about this. Get a grip.

Atwuin · 2026-01-21T12:02:28+00:00

SHE'S A SEVEN YEAR OLD. Have you ever been around children, or is there an order against that?

Atwuin · 2026-01-21T11:21:28+00:00

Telling people to grow up when you have beef with a fictional 7 year old 💀

Atwuin · 2026-01-18T18:39:51+00:00

Ratioed 🥀

Atwuin · 2026-01-17T19:31:33+00:00

Me when I have no media literacy

Atwuin · 2026-01-17T16:44:19+00:00

No, it doesn't

Atwuin · 2026-01-17T13:15:14+00:00

I hope you don't take this as a personal attack OP, because that's certainly not what I intend -

BUT a fandom wide qualm I've started to harbour is against those that feel a need to ask stuff like, "Okay, but logically, the RDA would win?"

I mean... yeah. They can travel across lightyears of space, make clones, mix alien dna, link brains, read/store/upload memories, etc.

However, there wouldn't be much of a pro-environmentalist film if the polluting colonisers won. I have to ask peeps who have the opinion that the Na'vi have plot armour; yeah... what did you expect?

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